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 June 26, 1941 55 STAT.] 77TH CONG., IST SESS.-CHS. 256, 257, 286 July ,1941 ' July 9, 1941 1935: Provided, That no part of the amount allowed by virtue of P.ro. this Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof shall be paid or delivered to or received by any agent or attorney on account of services rendered in connection with this claim, and the same shall be unlawful, any contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Any person violating the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined m any sum not exceeding $1,000. Approved, June 26, 1941. [CHAPTER 257] AN ACT For the relief of Mrs. Lawrence Chlebeck. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Mrs. Lawrence Chlebeck of Saint Paul, Minnesota, the sum of $500, in full satisfaction of her claim against the United States for personal injuries sustained when she fell on the slippery stairway of the United States Customhouse Building, Saint Paul, Minnesota, on March 2, 1922: Provided, That no part of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof shall be paid or delivered to or received by any agent or attorney on account of services rendered in connection with this claim, and the same shall be unlawful, any contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Any person violating the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. Approved, June 26, 1941. [CHAPTER 286] AN ACT Authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Interior to cancel patent in fee issued to Lizzie Smith. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cancel the patent in fee numbered 1010067 issued to Lizzie Smith under date of Iecember 15, 1927, covering her allotment of land on the Fort Peck Reservation, Montana, described as follows: West half of section 17 township 31 north; east half southwest quarter northeast quarter oi section 34 and the northwest quarter northeast quarter of section 27, township 28 north, all in range 53 east, Montana meridian in Mon- tana, containing three hundred and eighty acres, and to issue to her a trust patent in lieu thereof covering the same land to be held in trust for her sole use and benefit or, in case of her decease, for the sole use and benefit of her lawful heirs and devisees for the same period under the same conditions as other trust patents are held on that reservation as extended by the last proclamation of the President relating to the said reservation: Provided, That any valid encum- brances now resting against any of the said land shall not in any manner be affected by the provisions of this Act, but any of such land so encumbered, if still owned by the allottee, heirs, or devisees, shall, when such encumbrances have been removed, become subject to the provisions of this Act as fully and to the same extent as if such land were now unencumbered. Approved, July 9, 1941. 939 June 26, 1941 [H. R. 3234] [Private Law 123 Mrs. Lawrence Chlebeck. Payment to. P"O" July 9, 1041 [H.R. 4391 [Private Law 124] Lizzie Smith. Substitution of patent.

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